The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English provides students with a comprehensive foundation in English literature, language, and critical thinking, opening up a variety of academic and career opportunities:

Literary and Cultural Knowledge

Critical Thinking and Analytical Skill

Language Proficiency

Research and Academic Writing

Career Pathways

Preparation for Advanced Studies

PO1: Disciplinary Knowledge: Capable of demonstrating comprehensive knowledge and understanding of one or more disciplines that form a part of an undergraduate programme of study.

PO2: Critical Thinking: Capability to apply analytic thought to a body of knowledge; analyse and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims, beliefs on the basis of empirical evidence; identify relevant assumptions or implications; formulate coherent arguments; critically evaluate practices, policies and theories by following scientific approach to knowledge development.

PO3: Communication Skills: Ability to express thoughts and ideas effectively in writing and orally communicate with others using appropriate media; confidently share one’s views and express herself/himself; demonstrate the ability to listen carefully; read and write analytically and present complex information in a clear and concise manner to different groups.

PO4: Research-related skills: A sense of inquiry and capability for asking relevant/appropriate questions, problem arising, synthesizing and articulating; Ability to recognize cause-and-effect relationships, define problems, formulate hypotheses, test hypotheses, analyse, interpret and draw conclusions from data, establish hypotheses, predict cause-and-effect relationships; ability to plan, execute and report the results of an experiment or investigation.

PO5: Cooperation/Team work: Ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams; facilitate cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group, and act together as a group or a team in the interests of a common cause and work efficiently as a member of a team.

PO6: Reading & Projects: Document their reading and interpretive practices in assignments, translation works, and independent projects.

PO7: Confidence & Effectiveness: Confidently and effectively articulate their literary and textual experiences.

PO8: Social Skills & Empathetic Approach: Reorganize a professional and reflective approach to leadership, responsibility, personal integrity, empathy, care and respect for others, accountability and self-regulation.

PO9: Reflective thinking: Critical sensibility to lived experiences, with self-awareness and reflexivity of both self and society.

PO10: Information/Digital literacy: Capability to use ICT in a variety of learning situations, demonstrate ability to access, evaluate, and use a variety of relevant information sources; and use appropriate software for analysis of data.

PO1: Students Will Demonstrate An Appropriate Level Of Expertise In Literary History, Literary Theory, And Rhetoric.

PO2: Students Will Demonstrate High-Level Proficiency In Literary Research And In The Synthesis Of Research.

PO3: Students Will Demonstrate Critical And Analytical Skills In The Interpretation And Evaluation Of Literary Texts.

PO4: Students Will Demonstrate A Command Of Written Academic English, Including The Abilities To A) Organize And Present Material In A Cogent Fashion, B) Formulate And Defend Original Arguments, C) Employ Effectively The Language Of Their Discipline And D) Write Under Time Constraints.

PO5: Students Will Demonstrate Reading Knowledge Of At Least One Foreign Language.

PO6: The Program Also Offers Students Pathways To Prepare For Doctoral Work.

PSO1: Read and interpret various literary texts focusing on themes, generic conventions, historical contexts, linguistic and stylistic variations and innovations.

PSO2: Analyse texts, evaluate ideas and apply critical concepts and categories with clarity.

PSO3: Work independently in terms of reading literary and critical texts and situate one’s own reading, be aware of one’s position in terms of society, religion, caste, region, gender and politics, to be self-reflexive and self-questioning.

PSO4: Developing a research framework and presenting their independent ideas effectively.

PSO5: Equipping their employability skills to excel in professions like teaching and exposing them to various activities to empower them through communication skills.

PSO6: Enabling a holistic perspective towards the socio-political inequalities and environmental issues.

On successful completion of MA English course, the students will be able to achieve the following,

PSO1: A profound comprehension about the diverse English literature and a critical approaching towards those literature and translations.

PSO2: Critically analyze a text both from the historical and contemporary social perspective.

PSO3: Capability to present their ideas in a brief and lucid way.

PSO4: Developing a research framework and presenting their independent ideas effectively.

PSO5: Equipping their employability skills to excel in professions like teaching and exposing them to various activities to empower them through communication skills.

PSO6: Enabling a holistic perspective towards the socio-political inequalities and environmental issues.